Radio / Television News

Rogers wants The Score COL amended to compete with online services

TORONTO - Rogers Media Inc. has asked the CRTC to amend two conditions of license for The Score to enable it to slightly increase (from 10% to 15% of its schedule) the amount of analysis, interpretation and documentary programming it can provide in order to compete with online services offered by TSN, CBS Sports and ESPN. It also wants to push back mandatory news updates every 15-minutes when its airing live sports events to just once an hour. Rogers purchased Score Media Inc. this past summer for $171 million and its specialty station The Score currently broadcasts in more than...